Via Vitularia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The Via Vitularia was a Roman road that is now unlocated but originally was to be found in the territory of Arpinum. Cicero mentions it in his correspondence. It likely led from Arpinum in the Italian interior to the Tyrrhenian coast. Its name is derived from the first-declension Latin noun vitula, -ae meaning "heifer", thus the road's name may reflect its function, similar to the case of the Via Salaria, as Hodges points out in his commentary on Cicero's letters.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438880
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- Vitularia via (Via Vitularia: Latin, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Via Vitularia located near Arpinum (330 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated, road
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- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Via Vitularia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Arpinum
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Via Vitularia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438880> [accessed: 25 December 2024]
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